Summary

The market-leading guide to arguments, Writing Arguments has proven highly successful in teaching readers to read arguments critically and to produce effective arguments of their own. Teaches readers to write better arguments. How to write arguments; how to do research for arguments. Anyone interested in writing better arguments.

Table of Contents

Color Plates

xxi

Preface

xxii

Acknowledgments

xxxi

Part One Overview of Argument

1

(72)

Argument: An Introduction

3

(19)

What Do We Mean by Argument?

3

(2)

Argument Is Not a Fight or a Quarrel

3

(1)

Argument Is Not Pro-Con Debate

4

(1)

Arguments Can Be Explicit or Implicit

4

(1)

Wilfred Owen, ``Dulce et Decorum Est''

5

(2)

The Defining Features of Argument

7

(6)

Argument Requires Justification of Its Claims

7

(3)

Argument Is Both a Process and a Product

10

(1)

Argument Combines Truth Seeking and Persuasion

10

(3)

Argument and the Problem of Truth

13

(3)

A Successful Process of Argumentation: The Well-Functioning Committee

16

(1)

Gordon Adams (student), ``Petition to Waive the University Mathematics Requirement''